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Hidden History: Tampa Bay FL in the Civil War
Tampa Bay’s role in the Civil War is today almost entirely forgotten."Hidden History" is a diary series that explores forgotten and little-known areas of history.Civil War marker in Oaklawn Cemetery,...
View ArticleTransgender Awareness Week Day 3 - Albert Cashier
Monday I wrote about a Doctor that helped transgender individuals. Yesterday I wrote of a transwoman former slave that had a tragic but inspiring story. Today I want to talk about a more uplifting...
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The Lost White Working Class and the Democrats
Mayor De Blasio of New York.I’ve been listening to recent statements on the Cov19 Fall spike by Democratic politicians, in this case by Mayor De Blasio, who sounded like many others. And in describing...
View ArticleWhat's the matter with you??!!
An open letter to John Robinson Block and the opinion editors at the Pittsburgh Post-GazetteI emailed the following to all the opinion editors and, John Robinson Block, the owner of the Pittsburgh...
View ArticleThe Japanese Killed 2,403 Americans at Pearl Harbor. COVID kills 2,260...
Today is the 79th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor — which is reason enough to pause and think of the Americans who died for their country that day. And while we honor the dead let us...
View ArticleThe Civil War Never Ended
“…Now twenty years past the close of the most stupendous war ever known, we have writers who profess devotion to the nation, engaged in trying to prove that the union forces were not victorious....
View ArticleThoughts On Secession...
Alright, Texas and now Florida are making secessionist noises after The Traitor was shut out by The Supremes. Who is next? Alabama? Idaho? No doubt there will be more such noise, likely within the...
View ArticleCorporations Could Help With Unruly Trumpanzees
Corporations Could Help With Unruly TrumpanzeesI wrote a piece on the actual meaning of a modern-day civil war, as opposed to the trumpanzee’s fantasy version, where they get to kill all the Libs, go...
View ArticleIdentifying the Bad Guy Isn't Always So Easy
Though I’m not proud of it, this Southern boy grew up venerating the last vestiges of the Grand Lost Cause of the Confederacy. He revered Robert E. Lee as a gallant, dashing warrior pushed into a cause...
View ArticleParler is the new Gab, replete with violent far-right rhetoric, but a larger...
Parler, the Twitter-like social-media platform, only exists to service the American right’s paranoia-fueled persecution complex, especially the belief that mainstream platforms censor their ideas....
View ArticleLiberalism sucks, let’s secede
It seems that every time a Democrat ascends to the White House, Republicans, specifically the self-proclaimed conservative and patriot breed, declare that it’s time to secede from the Union....
View ArticleAt Least 140 Republican Representatives and One Senator Will Vote For A Civil...
Let that sink in while celebrating the New Year! What do the batshit crazies voting to overturn the Presidential election think will happen if they are successful? That most of us would simply react...
View ArticleTrump, Pence, McConnell, 140 House R, Hawley, set for circular firing event
Trump is the logical result of a path that the republican party started out on when President Nixon saw the anger of Southern whites over the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act...
View ArticleThe Republican bid for civil war
The Electoral College certification process is going to make January 6th a wild day. Cosplay right-wingers will descend on Washington like flies descend on Mike Pence’s head. And inside the United...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of Civil War
It is unfortunate, that most of what people know of the Confederacy comes from “Gone With The Wind”. We see young men of the planter class galloping off to enlist. We see the ladies of the south...
View ArticleToday's Poems: Five by Stephen Crane.
Courage – a poem by Stephen Crane.There were many who went in huddled procession, They knew not whither; But, at any rate, success or calamity Would attend all in equality.There was one who sought a...
View ArticleAlternative History as Prediction: Mitchell Freedman's 2003 book on RFK...
Mitchell Freedman wrote an alternative history,A Disturbance of Fate, back in 2003: What if Robert Kennedy had lived? What if he had survived walking through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel that...
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The Consequences of Deception
It’s not brain surgery to note what can happen when the people are fed lie after lie by the thousands, for 4 years, by the president of their own country. Those not able to see though the lies will...
View ArticleNew Third Party QAnon 2024 Presidential Candidate: Donald Trump
As the world watches the United States of America tear itself down from the inside, there are no reasons to think America can ever fully come back from this burgeoning second Civil War. An extremely...
View ArticleMAGA Doubles Down on War
A Michigan County Commissioner grabbed and displayed a military grade rifle in response to a local woman’s request that board members denounce the Proud Boys. Lawmakers in nine states are moving to...
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